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81 " ... and for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship - pain suffered and pain inflicted. How foolish we were to be afraid of loneliness. "
― Graham Greene
82 " Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. "
― Graham Greene , The End of the Affair
83 " I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing. "
84 " My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman. "
― Graham Greene , Loser Takes All
85 " Married people grow like each other. "
86 " A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced "
― Graham Greene , Brighton Rock
87 " He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power. "
― Graham Greene , Our Man in Havana
88 " People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. "
― Graham Greene , The Heart of the Matter
89 " Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ? "
90 " You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced. "
91 " Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away. "
92 " Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement. "
― Graham Greene , The Comedians
93 " Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures. "
94 " Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God. "
― Graham Greene , Monsignor Quixote
95 " She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there. "
― Graham Greene , The Living Room
96 " We forget very easily what gives us pain. "
― Graham Greene , The Ministry of Fear
97 " It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. "
98 " He had been frightened and so he had been vehement. "
99 " A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh, the shape of nose and mouth, and yet we protest, This isn't me. "
100 " If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may have his ambitions: he may dream of training even such a person as myself, even poor Parkis, into being his saints, ready with borrowed fanaticism to destroy love wherever we find it. "